Ultimately, the interoperability of all of these devices – ranging from complex and sophisticated products such as home appliances, mobile devices and televisions, to lightweight and small accessories such as lamps, thermometers, switches and sensors – will allow people to enjoy a smarter, more convenient lifestyle.
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One advantage the Samsung Artik 10 has over its Raspberry rival is in the graphics department.
Unfortunately there is no news on pricing yet, but as PC World reports, it could well be a bit more expensive than the Raspberry Pi 3 which runs to $35 (it’s around £28-£30 in the UK). It’s interesting to note that the Artik 10 is built using the same processor and semiconductor technology which is used in Samsung’s latest flagship smartphones like Galaxy S7 and S7 edge. Its octa-core architecture includes a quad ARM Cortex-A15 and an ARM quad Cortex -A7 along with 2GB LPDDR3 RAM, 16GB flash memory and Mali T628 MP6 GPU. The Artik has a Mali T628 MP6 GPU and 2GB LPDDR3 system RAM along with 16GB eMMC storage. It also has USB ports.
Samsung is also working with companies to provide analytics, security and other services through Artik Cloud. According to Gartner, the number of IoT-based connected devices will likely touch 20 billion by the year 2020.
The cloud service also provides software tools and connectors to link IoT data to other cloud services or silos of data that companies may have in server installations or outside sources.
Multi-Protocol Connectors: Connect any device to the cloud using multiple protocols – REST/HTTP, Websockets, MQTT, and CoAP.
“There is a strong need to offer a professional-grade, highly integrated and familiar development platform”, said Curtis Sasaki, vice president of Ecosystems, Samsung Electronics.
“The launch of this exciting new platform not only signals Samsung’s foray into the cloud services market but reinforces our belief that, by creating powerful open platforms, we can harness the information generated by IoT to develop new insights and new approaches to address the major global challenges of today and tomorrow”, Sohn said in a statement.
Ltd. kicked off this year’s Samsung Developer Conference joined by around 4,000 of developers from around the world at Moscone Center and thousands via the SDC Live stream. Owners can tap into the Artik Cloud for various applications such as health, security, driver assistance and even home automation. “Digibe is excited to partner with ARTIK Cloud to connect the worlds of IoT and enterprise collaboration”, said Pierre Lecointre, co-founder and CTO of Digibe.
Right now the Otto is only a prototype created to show off Samsung’s new IoT technology.
“We’ve changed from a hardware company to a software company”, said Injong Rhee, executive VP and head of research and development for Samsung’s software and services group.
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Artik will come with a version of Linux for embedded devices.
